Ralph Pudsey

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Grave of Sir Ralph Pudsey, St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Bolton-by-Bowland

Sir Ralph Pudsey of Bolton-by-Bowland (* around 1390, † 1468 ) was an English knight .

Life

Sir Ralph was a son of Sir John Pudsey and Margaret, a daughter of William Eure. He was a squire of Bolton-by-Bowland in the Ribble Valley in Lancashire .

From King Henry V , Ralph Pudsey received an annual payment of £ 20 from 1415, because he was able to locate and bring back Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany , who was brought as a prisoner to the Scottish border for an exchange and kidnapped en route .

During the Wars of the Roses , Sir Ralph fought for the House of Lancaster at the Battle of Northampton (1460) and at the Battles of St Albans and Towton in 1461 .

In the summer of 1464 he granted Henry VI. who had been on the run since losing at Hexham , took refuge in Bolton Hall. There are still some relics of the king left behind in 1464. It is a pair of gloves, boots and a spoon.

Sir Ralph Pudsey died in 1468 and was buried in St. Peter and St. Paul's Church in Bolton-by-Bowland.

Marriage and offspring

Sir Ralph has been married three times.

In his first marriage he married Maud Tempest. The couple had the following offspring:

  • John
  • Joyce

In his second marriage he married Margaret Tunstall, daughter of Thomas Tunstall. The couple had the following offspring:

  • John ⚭ Gertrude Hamerton
  • Thomas
  • Elizabeth
  • Jane
  • Margaret
  • Isabell

He married Edwina in his third marriage. The couple had the following offspring:

  • Robert
  • William
  • Henry
  • George
  • Edward
  • Rowland
  • Alexander
  • Mabel
  • Grace
  • Margaret
  • Jane
  • Elizabeth
  • Ann
  • Joan ⚭ Robert Lambard
  • Agnes ⚭ Richard Dyneley
  • Grace ⚭ Walter Barnfeld
  • Thomasine

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Douglas Richardson: Plantagenet Ancestry. A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families . 2011, ISBN 978-1-4610-4513-7 , p. 51.
  2. ^ A b Samuel Kent: The Banner display'd or an Abridgement of Guillium . Thomas Cox, London 1726, p. 225.
  3. ^ Thomas Duffus Hardy: Syllabus of the Documents related to England and other Kingdoms . Longman & Co, London 1883, p. 587.
  4. ↑ Juliet Barker: Agincourt. The King, the Campaign, the Battle . Hachette 2010, ISBN 978-0-7481-2219-6 .
  5. ^ A b c d e Towton Battlefield Society
  6. ↑ a b c Thomas Moule: The English Counties in the 19th Century . George Virtue, London 1837, p. 482.
  7. ^ British Archaeological Association: Journal of the British Archaeological Association. Volume XVI, Longman & Green, London 1860, p. 170
  8. ^ A b Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. Volume XII, Adam Holden, Liverpool 1872, p. 198.
  9. ↑ a b c d e Peter Bramley: A Companion and Guide to the Wars of the Roses . The History Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-7524-9691-7 .
  10. ^ A b Mary Ann Hookham: The Life and Time of Margaret of Anjou . Tinsley Brothers, London 1872, pp. 204/205.
personal data
SURNAME Pudsey, Ralph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pudsey, Sir Ralph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English knight
DATE OF BIRTH around 1390
DATE OF DEATH 1468